Longtime scientist talks effects of farms, dams and warming on Dakotas' changing landscape

W. Carter Johnson first began studying the ecology of the Dakotas as a graduate student at North Dakota State University in the 1960s and early '70s. His new book offers a survey of the region's natural history and the many ways in which humans have altered the land.

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